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Post subject: basic question: how do you give an ID to a gui item?

Posted: April 16th, 2009, 6:44 pm

just read the "gui, add" part but it doesn't say where you give an ID to the item -- right now I'm using guicontrol and the full name of the buttons, text fields, etc, but this is cumbersome... what's the parameter please?

I even did a full-text search in the helpfile for "ControlID" (the name of the GuiControl parameter) but this word is only used in GuiControl!

Thanks!

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Posted: April 16th, 2009, 6:48 pm

Joined: April 17th, 2007, 1:37 pm
Posts: 761
Location: Florida

AFAIK, the id is the name of whatever variable you have assigned to the control. This may not be true/possible for all control types...

Edit: Example:

Code:

gui,add,edit,vThisEdit w200,blah blah
gui,add,button,gClicky,Click
gui,show
return

clicky:
guicontrol,,ThisEdit,%A_Now%
return

guiclose:
exitapp
Return

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Posted: April 16th, 2009, 7:12 pm

Rhys wrote:

AFAIK, the id is the name of whatever variable you have assigned to the control. This may not be true/possible for all control types...

Edit: Example:

Code:

gui,add,edit,vThisEdit w200,blah blah
gui,add,button,gClicky,Click
gui,show
return

clicky:
guicontrol,,ThisEdit,%A_Now%
return

guiclose:
exitapp
Return

Thanks. Why would a button have a variable? What is the g mean, is it a "go-to" label? I can't imagine what else it would stand for. Thanks

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Posted: April 16th, 2009, 7:26 pm

this

Code:

Gui, Add, Button,  x370 gClicky, Click me
GuiControl, Hide, gClicky

totally doesn't work -- it complains about the first line! :evil:

any ideas?

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Rhys

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Posted: April 16th, 2009, 7:35 pm

Joined: April 17th, 2007, 1:37 pm
Posts: 761
Location: Florida

Try adding a variable name to the button (you have added a gosub name) using vClicky.

When you use guicontrol, drop the 'v' from the name since it's not really part of the variable's name.

Code:

Gui, Add, Button,  x370 vClicky, Click me
GuiControl, Hide, Clicky

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